President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, began his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Gorsuch supporter Leonard Leo of The Federalist Society told ABC News he is confident that “Gorsuch will be confirmed.” Schumer last week suggested that he would not support the confirmation of Gorsuch and urged his Senate Democratic colleagues to do the same. Gorsuch, 49, is a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. In his opening statement, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, praised Gorsuch’s “exceptional record” as a federal judge.

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Rulings offer glimpse into what kind of justice Neil Gorsuch would be

An administrative law judge and a review board of the Labor Department concluded Maddin was fired in violation of whistleblower provisions. “The trucker in this case wasn’t fired for refusing to operate his vehicle,” Gorsuch wrote. “There’s simply no law anyone has pointed us to giving employees the right to operate their vehicles in ways their employers forbid,” Gorsuch wrote. WASHINGTON >> Some liberals wary of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s fitness for the Supreme Court point to the Case of the Frozen Trucker. Gorsuch “would have held that the truck driver had two choices – stay with his trailer indefinitely in subzero temperatures .